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FOREST AND STREAM. 



[JIakuh 1, 1883. 



tissp was ;i lost suit, the ciunpliiint having; been made under 

 the [aw passed in ltt?!). found on page 1°0 of Iho public acts 

 of that year. The gist of the charge was thai the defend- 

 ants had so placed their trap nets as to interrupt the course 

 of Bab in Sagin&w River, the date of the commission of the 

 Offense being February 1-13, inclusive. C W. Higby, Of 

 Jackson, fish warden, ffas present to assisl the prosecution. 

 A Mr. I';inm, the first witness for the prosecution, said that 

 the defendants were fishermen and used Map nets lie 

 thought they lifted the nets on.- February ■'<. ii mighl have 

 been l'"i ■bruai \ 5; could not swear-positively as td the date. 

 Barry Harbeek said he dealt in fish: was acquainted with 

 defendants; knew where they fished near the month uf the 

 river; they had one net between the range lights and another 

 outside; did nol kuow liow far apart they weir; never mess 

 1 1 red i lie distance: did not know whether they fished in the 

 river or outside; thought it was in the river: thought Saginaw 

 Rivet was a harbor; bad retreated to Saginaw Hiver during 

 a storm for shelter. John Sharp had been fishing for ten 

 years; don't know where their nets arejsawthe stakes and 

 'supposed the nets were then-: never -aw defendants lift the 

 nets; should say th;,t tin- range lights are in Saginaw River, 

 one of them at least; the river begins to widen about half 

 way between the light*. The prosecution reviewed the 

 testimony of the witnesses and endeavored io -how that the 

 muuth of the Saginaw River, where the 0*tfl were set, was 

 not a harbor; that a boat could anchor further out with 

 perfect safety. The defense BaidthattJie time as flwofn toin 

 the complaint had not been fixed i,\ the Witnesses; that ac- 

 cording to "Tiffany's criminal law' it must be shown that 

 each of the four defendants Rere guilty as charged; the 

 guilt of only one had been partially shown, and therefore the 

 four could not be convicted, After some further remarks 

 from the prosecuting attorney, the jury retired and returned 

 a vercliol of "rtpl guilty. " The defendants were therefore dis- 

 charged. Thus the lv firim has been kicked out of the first 



fl.-l, .-..It in Dap nnm, i „ n.t.b.f ll ,■) ,,F 1 U70 '* 



l.olh. 



■ Tin E 



I 1 



High the 's!l>0 small hole: 



V '"ggs 



some twenty or thirty feet 

 it of the hot ton, of the fake is 

 il. with .-. mixture of some 



fish suit in Bay county under l lie 



f 1870/ 



' ■Tkmiickkoot" PrtACnKl). — Denver. Colo.. I'll,. •>(>. — 

 Wo noticed in your last issue (Feb. ID) a communication 

 from "Tenderfoot," Colorado, ,lan. 29. giving a verv graphic 

 description of fishing through the ice. We take it for 

 granted that the fish captured were trout and do not douhl 

 that the fishermen wen "tenderfoot'' indeed, else they 

 would not be quite so anxious tu herald abroad this most 

 flagrant violation of our fish laws. For "Tenderfoot's'' 

 benefit we will add that the open Seasou for trout fishing in 

 Colorado is from July 1 to (Vperhbnr l.and that a diet of 

 "ho;;, venison and rabbit'' i- prefj fable to « violation of the 

 same. K'hhekman. 



BiiTKA'B,VRA Wood — Philadelphia, Feb. £1. — KcKtor For 



til and f\lream : In your issue ,,t 1st insi. you say . "Betha- 

 bara wood looks like ffrei nhea] i. if not the -aiiio." Now 

 the facts ate. that it look. Hue it only as much as the large- 

 mouth black uasa resembles the -mall mouth (via., only 

 partially so). Bethobara is much darker in color and closer 

 grain, aud aside from its being more elastic and stronger 

 than greenheart. it has in it a resinous red dye. which 

 Minn- out iu working it. and in washing the bands with 

 soap will color the water a brick red. This is an infallible 



ies; :,- between the two woods —A. R. Miin.Mv 



A funnel 



iuebesat its intersection, with a foui 

 which five four-inch tubes, six inrlu 

 the lower side., a four-inch hole beinj 

 tion. the lower rods of these tube 

 which are perforated with small iWt 

 fastened to the side of the ear in such 

 hung immediately over the center of 

 water in these casks was uerat-ed 1 

 casks and pouring it into the funnel, ' 

 horizontal I ube and through the perfo 

 ends of dependent tubes. Closed ea 

 latter which ooi Id be placed on one o; 

 couline the ac-ation to anv particulai 



In addition to the above. I had -i 



So much for "apparatus, ""the :iothof May I pnt casks 

 and other paraphernalia in position on the car. not forgetting 

 a couple of thermometers, and torwardea it to Sandusky, 

 following next, dav with another member Of I he club and i wo 



men who had for a lour, linn: been i y emplo\ and whom 



I knew [ would find failbrul and able to put in two davs and 



a night without sleep or rest. We arrived in Sandusky on 

 tie- forenoon uf June I, the rain pouring down in torrents and 

 making a iheumatie individual feel anything but comfort- 

 able "\s we desired to let i be fish remain in the lake (or bay) 

 as long as possible, v. e did not commence putting thorn into 



Ue casks until abbftl two o'clock. The part} whowasto 

 furnish the fish had them "eorraled ' m a net at«,ut twenty- 

 four feet square. Our car was placed oil*, track near the 

 net, the track at this point running mil into the hay. We 

 had a long, hard and fed i,, as job getting the nsh on board tin- 

 car and into the casks, hut at six o'clock were ready to 

 lie toweil by an engine to the passenger station. several 

 miles distant, having taken ou board about two ton? of ice. 

 Having arranged beforehand with the officials of the several 

 railroads over which we would have to go for I ranspprtation 



on fast trains, we had every prospect of a s] d> trip. i,ut 



wlnn Hi- wain that was to take ns from BanduskytO M.-vi- 

 ! I :■■<:<: -i :<■■ s-,,,du-k\ itwasalio.il two hours he 



flic original bed of the =.(.,-, 

 wide, rook and gravel. T 

 for tin most pari ordina 



gravel. 



These particulars I received two rears ago from Mr. 

 Mcintosh. The. hlack bass of Lake Erie cannot fail to do 

 well and increase rapiillv. and grow to a verv large size in 

 this: tine lake, provided thev have plenty of natural food. 

 .1. A. Hensiiaix. 



i 'who ana. Ky.. Kel>.. l?sy. 



TEMFEKA'tVUK OF WISCONSIN LAKES.— Messrs. E. 

 M. GifTordiii.d O. W. I', cki.ein. in their investigations into 

 the. temperature of Wisconsin lakes found, that at a depth of 

 eighty feet there was a tetnperatuhe ol forty-two degrees 

 Fahrenheit in summer and thirtv-niue or lower in winter 



lite Mcmul. 



FIXTURES. 

 IS>-'.Ni [1 SHOWS: 



jgisJtcnUnre. 



TRANSPORTATION OF ADULT BLACK BASS. 



Editor Forest and Stream : 



X send you the following interesting and instructive account 

 of the transportation of over six hundred adult black bass 

 from Sandusky, O., to the hike of the South Fork Fishing and 

 Hunting Club,' of Pittsburgh. J'a. The whole matter was un- 

 der the charge and direction of Mr. Wm. A. Mcintosh, vice- 

 president of the club, with whom I ha 1 some correspondence 

 previous to the undertaking, giving him such general advice 

 and information as I was possessed of. 



The remarkable success attending Mr, Mi [ntosh's effdrts, 

 and the ingenuity and satisfactory workingsof his devices for 

 aerating the water, and his entire methods of transportation, 

 will be useful guides for the imitation of others for similar 

 purposes. Rewrites: 



PlTTSHUROH, Feb. a. 1883, 



Dr. ./. A ffenshall, GynDviixna, Ky.: 



My Deah Sir— 'Sour favor of December T, l*H2, has been 

 quietly resting cm my desk awaiting a time when I could, fully 

 reply to it. Two years ago our olub. the South Fork Fishing 

 and Hunting Club, were very desirous of stocking their lake 

 in the. mountains with black "bass, but as it was thought that 

 failure was almost sure to attend any attempt in that direc- 

 tion, no person hut myself could be obtained to undertake 

 the enterprise. The club placed -*:>0i> at my disposal. The 

 first thing to be done was to procure the ash. The only per- 

 son who would contract to furnish them was Oscar Listel, of 

 Sandusky, with whom I contracted for one thousand bass, 

 to average one and a half pounds in weight, none to weigh 

 less than three-quarters of a pound, and to be ready for de- 

 livery in Sandusky about the first of May. 



Owing to extreme backwardness of the season, and large 

 accumulations of ice in the lake and bay, no fish were ready 

 at the time agreed upon, and I had to agree to take on -the 

 last of May what bass Mr. Listel might be able to procure by 

 that time.' Tlie information which I could obtain on the sub- 

 ject of transporting huge numbers of live adult tish was ex- 

 tremely meager; none of it being deduced from experience, 

 andlwas reluctantly thrown upon my own inventive re- 

 sources. 



Fust I arranged for a baggage car. and made a diagram 

 of it. Then I had built fifteen oak casks, three feet high and 

 three feet in diameter, with both heads in. and cut „ hole 

 eighteen inches in diameter in the top head of each cask. I 

 also procured five galvanized iron tanks, each three feet in 

 diameter and livefeet high, entirely open at the top. 1 then 

 procured an air pump worked with a vertical lever. To the 

 air escape of this pump I attached one end of a piece of rub- 

 ber hose, fifty feet in length and one inch diameter. The 

 other end of the hose I attached to an affair of my own contriv- 

 ing consisting of tour round tin tubes twelve inches long, and 

 one inch in diameter, joined together so as to form a hollow 

 square; then two cross tubes, the ends of which are tiffed to 

 holes .ill into the inside of I he hollow square lubes. 



Tin-. adair is then laid flat OB the bench, and 'at th ' 



Ihr, 



r-fo 



, tit of desperation 

 of the Cleveland .V Pittsburgh 

 train on that road be held until 

 answer, but on arrivingal Cl< 



that my request had ' D Bom 



shifted into position and we wei 

 We arrived at Alliance in tin. 



the fast express on theHttsmi 



desti 



i id 



muni Bench Show. FMItshnrgli. l'a. Entries far the tench 

 rrtiy. fci English seller- vhelp,-,l „ n or aii.-r .Imnmiy I. Is*-,'. 

 ibruary. i.JSHJi OKaa. Lincoln SirperiutendBnt en EaMn 



3, 9. in oiid ii. 1888. Westminster Kennel t»1ub, Soventh 



Bonch Sle.v, . Madison Square ( laid,),, New York City. ('has. 

 Lincoln Sup't. 



prOTftjit iitttntiuii n>iiu„n,iir(ilii,,i:< ghol'M Iw ml- 



dressed to the Bbrwrf and Strenm Publishing Co., and not to 

 individuals, in whose abnence jrVowi the nfftr? „i/<ttnx of i'„,- 

 poricniee "re liable, to delay. 



THE WASHINGTON DOG SHOW. 



last week uu 

 'In was quite a success. 

 •Iv .ill of them present. Including 

 the puppies there were over <IUQdog3 in the bnildm.. Tie 

 show was held in the Roll-r skating Rink, which is well 

 adapted for the purpose except that it is not large enough, 



I the 



Fork.'whi.h place 



Our 



■T'' 



kl\ 



fast day express," bound for 



S 



•,cl,e,l.,i eleven o'elock A. M. 





je-t racked. Several member 



< of th 



wagon-, on which we had tc 



tran? 



two and a ball miles „ve 



' >'o'lg 



the lake of tbeelnb. wlm-li \ 



■\ - sin 



BiS O'l lOOk P. M. We put l 



nto th 



.n.l.tion six hundred fish, w 



•iglnn 



a pound io Iwoandahalf 



pound 



of the six hundred and srx 



v wit 



club were on hand 



port the casks and 



mountainous roads 



ees>tnilv completed 



lake in apparent goi 



from three-quarters 



each, losing about t 



which we started from the Sandusky. 



During the few davs following quite n number of dead tish 

 came to the surface of the water, perhaps one hundred, which 

 is not to be wondered at considering the very warm weather, 

 the nearness of the spawning season, and rlie length nf time 

 lhe\ had been confined, manv of i hern, in close quarters in 

 Sand 



np \ 



much n 



■ orked i 



nth 



In 



ell ;l 



We 



\tv degr. 

 i the 



i.-h 



I dr 



et.er is cut. ov.-r Which IS placed one- end of a tin lube, one 

 fneh in diameter and three feet long, open at both ends, anil 

 being at right, angles with the i«oss tubes This is soldered 

 at the intersection and about gOO small holed punched into the 

 upper surface. The remaining end of the rubber hone is drawn 

 dowBOverthe upper and of thanpright tube and i he whole 

 is complete and ready for use. Holding the upper end of the 

 tube iu Iho baud the'perforated portion is placed at the botr 

 lotn of the cask, Ok level of the air pump is worked and fan- 



ning bass llliiv lie -eel, :i •_!•,, I 



iiiaiiv of from six to eight muhes in length jumping out 9* 

 the water, apparently after insects. 

 lam just a little proud of ,nv invention lor aerating win 

 if air-pump and apparatus de-.enb,d. 1 



ybody 



bv means Of air-pump and apparatus descri 

 hiis ii valid prior claim let ma know and I'll 

 est approach to it that I know of consists in pumping ..r mi-, 

 the water through a hand bellow.— rather a slow process 

 when you have 3,50(1 gallons of water in I went y casks. And 

 to transport six hundred or seven hundred fish, averaging 

 one and a half pounds each, is unite a different affair trom 

 transporting fry one inch in length. 



Should vim be. in this city at any tune during summer- or 

 fall, I will be pleased to hive v.-u visit our lake with mo 



Permit me to express mv thanks for the pleasure I derive 

 from reading yom : ,.u:-r asp Stream, on 



' TVit. A. MoIntosh. 



After the reception of the foregoing letter 1 at once 



wrote Mr Mcintosh to a ttain if he had taken notes of the 



morlaliiy of the tish in the dill'erent tanks and casks, so that 

 lie- relative merits of the two plans Of aeration might be 



r\ good indeed 



ol (hem e.vp.v.-e.d their delight at be 

 hibirion. Th, ladies ware als it 



ue,e l..vis|d\ be-rowi.d np ■', ile hie 



We W.-e,. p!e.i-e,l tole.,,-,1 thai Mr 



i lerstands the cln-we-i I" iudged, mid his 



llyinfloreed. We wore sorrj toseetbat 



:a the judges had an interest in were not with- 



noii. F.venndmitlmg thai (he animals 



■eph 



on. Feb I., iss:;. 



,-r I In- llllh in.-,! ant. 



in ion was required 



/),■. ./. .1. HtMthall, CgUthUtna, EC] 



Deaji Sir— 1 have received you 



and in reply would s.-n ih.-it consti 



of all parties engaged in appb in, e . . pumping air aim rais- 

 ing water from casks in'" ti'Tauii- app.ir.it 'is. ano M'eing 

 ill.ii was inuio-'.-iblc to take full notes. I have no dpubt, 

 however, that' either nielhud m aerating will befoundefB- 

 cicnt, i. c, the aii pump or tie- funnel and pipes, If I were 

 to undertake ii .-imiinr job. I would try to arrange Tor two 



large tanks, • on each aide of the -id' doors of tht car 



leaving room i.e. ,.. ,-,.,: i )., ,* for anairpumiiand a force pump. 

 Then, bv suspending „ wide, perforated trough 

 tank, the water coula be forced .r,-:,, tbetanks bymeansof 

 the force pump into th- troughs. The manual labor required 

 in constant numpm,. i- severe, but could !"• obMiiteM in ii 

 great measure bv working the puiniu by ni'-ans ol a belt -oii- 

 nection with one of the <v,r ' Yours truly, 



Wm. A. MoIntosh. 



Fork Pishing and Hunting Club is 

 ttsburgh, and .' , mile- from South 

 lsvlv.iiiia Railroad. It, is formed by 

 MO feet :,,„•■. b.-tween two raiigcs of 

 mounfiin-.' The lake covers -,n ,-i. ., ol l.'.n aer.-s. and IS from 

 a fourth to thr.-e fourth- of a mile in width, and nearly three 

 mileslong The water varies in depth, being about sixty 

 feet deep at the dam, and gradually decreasing in depth to 

 the head of the lake, where it is only two or thrct oei deep. 

 The lake is fed by a mountain stream, the =outh branch ot 

 the Conewaugh River. A pan of the hot torn of the lake U 





:ioi,i an an 



nual 



bench show :ii W'nshington. Should In- de.-i 



ie to do this 





have no doubt he will be well -Ustain-,1 bv 



loth exbib 



tors 



and the public. 







Efriday evening was the occasion of : . i er.v 







n.onv In l.ehnlfof the numerous friends 



mil admire 



- ol 



Old Leicester. Col. Tom Ochiltree presented i 



3 him a ma f 



mil. 





in large n 



ised 



tetters. The Colonel wae-t-ery happy In his all 



islolis to e\ 



, in- 



in tho career of the grand old dog. Closing 



with agio 



M.'lg 



tribute to his usefulness, and * neatly turner 



complinie 



ll to 



the honors he had achieved, he placed the eo 



lar on the 



k 



of the hero and crowned him with a wreath c 



f laurel. 1 



.on,i 



and hue- continued applause greeted the gri 



eefulnct. 



Col 



Ochiltree th"ii nu ned to the beautiliil Petrel ill. and in well 

 chosen words pre.-entcd her with the medal She had won. She 

 was also applauded t" the i cho. and for a long time admiring 

 crowds gathered around and paid honor to the wonderful 

 pair. Below will be found uiir comments upon the dogs. 

 MAST iris. 

 .nd dogs iu the dog class. C;esar was 



credo to his sire, 

 also very good. '( 

 splendid specimen 

 well. Dinah II., 

 formed animal bt 

 good points audgi 

 ' , noi like . 



as first, is ii 

 Bnrth. 



mo 



i tin 



eh class, 



ell 



n try. 



.. junstirr. Only one puppy was entered, 

 Europa, who give- pronll«s ol turning cail son,- thing ni i 



si. I'i ll\.MOlS. 



The Bt. Bernards were very gW 



a bad r 



ei.l!lv g 1. THeeh.s 



dbg and biich class, 

 form. ,lndv, whow 

 In the lough-coated i 



Tie 



Sai 



,'.!le. 



m class 

 ■old. Hi. 



put II 



iipp.-: 



He 



. Bin 



II ihiongh. wnh scarcely 

 of Mr. Haines « 

 - properly divided into a 

 was in grand 



looked well. 



I the 



.nlv 



to 



idndi h- 





nn 



l.,l:. 



of tl 



e Sou 



at 

 V 



il 



irk 

 e hi 



DO il 



stati 



ii.;;i 



iles ' 



gol 



the I' 



i dam 



a- entitled. He i- a verv lair animal although bestands 



too hieh b, hind and is raiiur wed: in th- hind toga, Which 



h may fro* I He remind- u.-. especially in head. .,i Snip; 



who was -ho-.Miat Boseoa last year. Marcus and. Tasso ar 

 rived aft--r the nidging was over and of course too late to conv 

 ,. . piendid braeeand will undoubtedly de- 

 velop into grand doge, tobengrm was the onry goad one in 



the -m...,ri:-.o.iieri flogs, Major Tutvine trmisposea to the 



PUPP.V class, win-re he ,-usily won lii-st. He bids fair to make 

 b magnifieent dog,. ami wiii undoul liv be heard from again. 



"tEWTOCXDLANOS. 



Mayor of Bingley was properly placed first. He is » -piendid 



specimen of the ineed. weneral Grant is alsoverj _ t for 



his age; he was given itecond. 



out ^ Hoi Mis. 



There were some very good ones in this el&sS. Pan, win, won 

 first, was in splendid condition She is all over a greyhound 

 aud deserved the place. Maude, who got second, is a tine 

 animal with a capital muzzl. and head She is too wide in 



